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+# This script is used to set up a local Hadoop and Tez environment for running a simple word count example.
+# Prerequisites
+# 1. java is installed and JAVA_HOME is set
+# 2. ssh localhost works without password
+
+# All parameters are optional:
+# TEZ_VERSION: defaults to the latest version available on the Apache Tez download page
+# HADOOP_VERSION: defaults to the version which belongs to the TEZ_VERSION
+# TEZ_EXAMPLE_WORKING_DIR: defaults to the current working directory
+
+# TEZ_VERSION comes from environment variable or is fetched from the Apache Tez download page
+export TEZ_VERSION=${TEZ_VERSION:=$(curl -s "https://downloads.apache.org/tez/" | grep --color=never -o '[0-9]\+\.[0-9]\+\.[0-9]\+' | sed -n '/\/$/!p' | sort -V | tail -1)} # e.g. 0.10.4
+export TEZ_EXAMPLE_WORKING_DIR=${TEZ_EXAMPLE_WORKING_DIR:=$PWD}
+cd $TEZ_EXAMPLE_WORKING_DIR
+
+echo "TEZ_VERSION: $TEZ_VERSION"
+wget -nc https://archive.apache.org/dist/tez/$TEZ_VERSION/apache-tez-$TEZ_VERSION-bin.tar.gz
+
+# Need to extract the Tez tarball early to get hadoop version it depends on
+if [ ! -d "apache-tez-$TEZ_VERSION-bin" ]; then
+    tar -xzf apache-tez-$TEZ_VERSION-bin.tar.gz
+fi
+
+export HADOOP_VERSION=${HADOOP_VERSION:=$(basename apache-tez-$TEZ_VERSION-bin/lib/hadoop-hdfs-client-*.jar | sed -E 's/.*hadoop-hdfs-client-([0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+)\.jar/\1/')} # e.g. 3.4.1
+
+cat <<EOF
+***
+*** Demo setup script is running in $TEZ_EXAMPLE_WORKING_DIR ***
+*** TEZ version: $TEZ_VERSION
+*** HADOOP version $HADOOP_VERSION
+***
+EOF
+
+wget -nc https://archive.apache.org/dist/hadoop/common/hadoop-$HADOOP_VERSION/hadoop-$HADOOP_VERSION.tar.gz
+
+if [ ! -d "hadoop-$HADOOP_VERSION" ]; then
+    tar -xzf hadoop-$HADOOP_VERSION.tar.gz
+fi
+
+export HADOOP_HOME=$TEZ_EXAMPLE_WORKING_DIR/hadoop-$HADOOP_VERSION
+export TEZ_HOME=$TEZ_EXAMPLE_WORKING_DIR/apache-tez-$TEZ_VERSION-bin
+export HADOOP_CLASSPATH=$TEZ_HOME/*:$TEZ_HOME/lib/*:$TEZ_HOME/conf
+
+export PATH=$PATH:$HADOOP_HOME/bin
+
+# https://hadoop.apache.org/docs/stable/hadoop-project-dist/hadoop-common/SingleCluster.html#Pseudo-Distributed_Operation
+cat <<EOF > $HADOOP_HOME/etc/hadoop/hdfs-site.xml
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="configuration.xsl"?>
+
+<configuration>
+  <property>
+      <name>dfs.replication</name>
+      <value>1</value>
+  </property>
+</configuration>
+EOF
+
+cat <<EOF > $HADOOP_HOME/etc/hadoop/core-site.xml
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="configuration.xsl"?>
+
+<configuration>
+  <property>
+      <name>fs.defaultFS</name>
+      <value>hdfs://localhost:9000</value>
+  </property>
+</configuration>
+EOF
+
+cat <<EOF > $HADOOP_HOME/etc/hadoop/yarn-site.xml
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="configuration.xsl"?>
+
+<configuration>
+    <property>
+        <name>yarn.nodemanager.aux-services</name>
+        <value>mapreduce_shuffle</value>
+    </property>
+</configuration>
+EOF
+
+# optionally stop previous clusters if any
+$HADOOP_HOME/sbin/stop-dfs.sh
+$HADOOP_HOME/sbin/stop-yarn.sh
+
+rm -rf /tmp/hadoop-$USER/dfs/data
+hdfs namenode -format -force
+
+$HADOOP_HOME/sbin/start-dfs.sh
+$HADOOP_HOME/sbin/start-yarn.sh
+
+hadoop fs -mkdir -p /apps/tez-$TEZ_VERSION
+hadoop fs -copyFromLocal $TEZ_HOME/share/tez.tar.gz /apps/tez-$TEZ_VERSION
+
+# create a simple tez-site.xml
+cat <<EOF > $TEZ_HOME/conf/tez-site.xml
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="configuration.xsl"?>
+
+<configuration>
+  <property>
+      <name>tez.lib.uris</name>
+      <value>/apps/tez-$TEZ_VERSION/tez.tar.gz</value>
+  </property>
+</configuration>
+EOF
+
+# create a simple input file
+cat <<EOF > ./words.txt
+Apple
+Banana
+Car
+Apple
+Banana
+Car
+Dog
+Elephant
+Friend
+Game
+EOF
+
+hadoop fs -copyFromLocal words.txt /words.txt
+
+export HADOOP_USER_CLASSPATH_FIRST=true
+# finally run the example
+yarn jar $TEZ_HOME/tez-examples-$TEZ_VERSION.jar orderedwordcount /words.txt /words_out
+
+# check the output
+hadoop fs -ls /words_out
+hadoop fs -text /words_out/part-v002-o000-r-00000
+
+
+cat <<EOF
+*** Since the environment is already set up, you can rerun the DAG using the commands below.
+
+export HADOOP_USER_CLASSPATH_FIRST=true
+export TEZ_HOME=$TEZ_EXAMPLE_WORKING_DIR/apache-tez-$TEZ_VERSION-bin
+export HADOOP_CLASSPATH=$TEZ_HOME/*:$TEZ_HOME/lib/*:$TEZ_HOME/conf
+$HADOOP_HOME/bin/yarn jar $TEZ_HOME/tez-examples-$TEZ_VERSION.jar orderedwordcount /words.txt /words_out
+
+*** You can also visit some of the sites that are set up during the script execution.
+
+Yarn RM: http://localhost:8088
+HDFS NN: http://localhost:9870
+
+EOF
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